Duncan Grant
Rodin Receiving Guests at the International Exhibition London
Lot Closed
March 14, 02:45 PM GMT
Estimate
800 - 1,200 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Duncan Grant
1885 - 1978
Rodin Receiving Guests at the International Exhibition London
signed D. Grant and dated 1904 (lower left); titled (lower edge)
pencil and charcoal on paper
unframed (sheet): 25 by 31cm.; 10 by 12¼in.
framed: 36 by 41cm.; 14¼ by 16in.
Executed in 1904.
We are grateful to Richard Shone for his kind assistance with the cataloguing for the present work.
Sale, Phillips London, 25 March 1968, lot 60
Southover Gallery, London
Acquired by the present owner
Lewes, Southover Gallery, Duncan Grant’s ninetieth-birthday exhibition, 4 - 26 February 1975, no. 17
It is probable that the young Grant, then a student at Westminster School of Art, was given an invitation to the private view by one of his teachers; or taken by his mentor Simon Bussy.